My best year ever and I had a blast. My cycling improved vastly and was able to climb faster than ever. I enjoyed almost every ride and was motivated to keep going. Road with more people and meet so many more too. Just had a blast and will continue to explore new places and ride with new people.

I just started using Strava (10/28/11), so my stats kinda suck. Plus I'm fat and slow. Mostly dirt, but some road as well.

Distance 293 mi
Time 27hr 48m
Elev Gain 32,131 ft
Rides 24

Been trying to ride regularly after work 2 or 3 times a week and once on the weekends and doing well. Definitely feeling stronger than ever as I've been chasing the KOM whores around as they ride at their 'social' pace.

My first ride with the Garmin was on Sept. 29th, 2011; 99% of these rides on my out-and-back daily jaunts at STCP. I also recently wearing it when I throw some weights around in the gym - so this is not all riding.

I've heard the regular havens are a truing nightmare, not to mention all the easton hub problems people have. Couple that with carbon, and they'd be an expensive garage ornament in no time

I couldn't get the trail king 2.2 setup, so in a hurry I tossed on a weir tcs 2.3 and a maxxis ikon 2.2. It's a weird combo: front grips like a champ, rear has no real sideknobs. Made for a scary day on connector! WTB is shipping me out some new stuff to try so it will be changing in a few days.

Hoping to raise my fitness level and XC race results for 2012 by adding some regular aggresively-paced (for me) road training rides. Thinking of running more too, since I told my girlfriend I'd get her that Tiffany's necklace by finishing the Nike Marathon. I figure I should train for that...

Don't have much in the way of elevation, miles, or anything like that since I just got my Garmin in November and I only ride maybe once a week. But I'm proud of a few KOM's and top 10 trophies on some DH sections at JMP, Rockville, Tamarancho, and Annadel. Especially the 8 minute flat on lawndale

Now if I could only stop crashing, I guess need to learn to stop being a strava newb and pushing too hard everywhere

Hopefullly I can start getting up earlier and logging some miles in for 2012

I had a fun year this year... I rode some sweet trails and met some great people out on the trails. I mixed in a 29er SS into my riding schedule. Set a goal to climb 25K feet (on dirt) each month for 2011 and met that goal. Totals:

This wasn't a good year for mileage or fitness for me. Bad knee injury in Oct '10 (largely off the bike through April '11), son being born, lots of work travel, etc. I logged just over 2,000 miles on the bike this year with ~500 of those on the MTB. I hope to get back up to 500 miles with 40k+ climbing a month for '12.

An amazing year for me, will be hard to top it in 2012, but I already have few ideas...
ZT

Marco- from the looks of it I see a lot of room for improvement! Don't beat yourself up too badly for a sub par year because I am sure you were busy with other things. We'l get you back on track for 2012 Seriously man, you rode your butt off. My hats off to you sir!

Total Climbing This Year: 250,405 ft
301 Hours
2,032 miles
288 Personal Records
5 pages of QOM's (from 2011 and 2010 - too lazy to separate them - no filtering feature)
32'nd on the mtbr team - you folks are an inspiration!

Mostly MTB, a little road. Also did a few backpacking trips, but I don't think those counted in the KOM climbing competition.

I don't have complete data for 2010, but it sure is nice to have a baseline for next year.

Not on Strava but using a Suunto altimeter watch and estimating miles:

Miles: 6,264
Hours: 744
Elev Gain: 1,010,400

Thanks to the dry December I made the million number, need to take it down a bit in 2012 and go for more variety instead of mindlessly circling Mt Diablo...which is great for racking up the elevation gain but not that much on the fun scale.

That is a mix of CX and Mountain Bike with a few road rides and road commutes thrown in. Also some trail runs and approximately triples 2010.

My goal for next year is 365k feet of climbing. 1k a day! As I mentioned a few weeks ago on a different post, the beauty of this past year is that I've really learned the more I put into the bike the more I get out of it. It has been a very rewarding year on the bike.

Combing the last 2 years makes for some interesting stats:
11,851 mi
1,152.913 feet climbed
1,004 hrs riding
241 rides, 39 of which were greater than 100 miles

All that climbing is particularly interesting:
- 222 miles up which would land me on the International Space Station
- an average of 1,580 feet climbed every day for 2 years (or the equivalent of climbing Kings Mtn Rd every day for 2 years)

Nice, pretty sure it was you who said you were also shooting for 250k on a thread about 6 months ago, way to sneak under the wire! What day did you make it on? I would have been freaking out cutting it that close!

Nice, pretty sure it was you who said you were also shooting for 250k on a thread about 6 months ago, way to sneak under the wire! What day did you make it on? I would have been freaking out cutting it that close!

-slide

I can't remember what I said back then, but my goal according to the KOM comp was 240K (20K per month). I surpassed that a little early, and I did kinda think it might be nice to hit 250, but wasn't really pushing for it. It just happened by getting out there for some fun rides over the holidays, and I had a week off work. That always helps.